SPEED Brings Music Box Full of Memories!

Popular Japanese girl group and industry staple SPEED are celebrating their 25th Anniversary with a special box set. Titled SPEED MUSIC BOX -ALL THE MEMORIES-, the boxset will be released on January 13, 2021! SPEED debuted in 1996 with their single “Body & Soul” and have earned many awards over the years, such as New Artist of the Year, Song of the Year, and Pop Album of the Year, just to name a few. SPEED did disband in 2000 and went on to concentrate on their solo careers, reuniting occasionally over the years, such as 2001 and 2003, to release new material. In 2008, they got back together and released new material, however, in 2012 they once again disbanded. Arakaki Hitoe left the group and did not renew her contract after their disbandment in 2012.

On SPEED’s official website, a Teaser was posted on October 6 with the taglines “25th Anniversary” “SPECIAL RELEASE” and “Wait a moment until 10:00 JST October 13th”, hinting at the box set. On October 13th, an announcement was revealed that there will be a special box set release containing all the original recordings of SPEED’s singles and albums in a set of 8 CDs, all in a collaboration with the labels TOY’S FACTORY, avex trax, and Rising Production. SPEED’s unreleased song, “Affection,” will also be included in this must have release.

SPEED MUSIC BOX -ALL THE MEMORIES- will release in one edition that will include 8CDs+Blu-ray+2Blu-ray Audio and is a Limited Edition. The 8CDs, as said above, will contain original recordings of all their tracks and will include on unreleased song. The Blu-ray will contain unreleased live footage of their 「Final Summer Dream Stage in 千葉マリンスタジアム(Chiba Marine Stadium)」from 1999 that was held at Chiba Marine Stadium, now known as ZOZO Marine Stadium. The 2Blu-ray Audio will include all tracks in the highest resolution sound possible. It will also come with a visual book that will include treasured and unreleased photos of SPEED. All these discs will come housed in a special commemorative box.

To commemorate this release, a special website has opened that includes messages from SPEED fans, such as producer Hiromasa Ijichi, Hideyuki Nakayama, Noritoshi Furuichi, Airi Suzuki, and LiSA - just to name a few. Check out the special website, along with pre-order links, track listing, and special release trailer all below!

SPEED MUSIC BOX -ALL THE MEMORIES- Limited Edition

SPEED 「SPEED MUSIC BOX -ALL THE MEMORIES-」

CD 1:

  1. Body & Soul

  2. I Remember

  3. STEADY

  4. Happy Together

  5. Go! Go! Heaven

  6. 「おやすみ・・・・・」

  7. Walk This Way

  8. Luv Vibration

  9. RAKUGAKI

  10. サヨナラは雨の日....

  11. Kiwi Love

  12. Starting Ove

  13. Starting Over(reprise)~Walk This Way

CD 2:

  1. Wake Me Up!

  2. 熱帯夜

  3. White Love

  4. ナマイキ

  5. my graduation

  6. Brand-New Weekend

  7. RISE

  8. Sophisticated Girl

  9. Another Sweet Field

  10. ラブリー♡フレンドシップ

  11. Reset 99 to 00

  12. Too Young

  13. I’ll Be All Right

  14. Street Life

CD 3:

  1. ALIVE

  2. Up To You !

  3. ALL MY TRUE LOVE

  4. Precious Time

  5. 季節がいく時

  6. Breakin’ out to the morning

  7. アダムとイブ

  8. Long Way Home

  9. 泣いてもいいよ

  10. Confusion

CD 4:

  1. Carry On my way

  2. 蒼いリグレット

  3. Deep Blue&Truth

  4. Luv Blanket

  5. Snow Kiss

  6. You are the moonlight

  7. Lookin’ for Love

  8. Two of us

  9. Eternity

  10. Don’t be afraid

CD 5:

  1. コケティッシュDreamin’

  2. My Lonely Habit

  3. Back to the Street-リトルワールドへの想い-

  4. Secret Eyes

  5. April -Theme of “Dear Friends”-

  6. One More Dream

  7. Be My Love

  8. 朱夏

  9. Walking in the rain

  10. Stars to shine again

CD 6:

  1. Cryin'

  2. Need Your Hands,Tonight

  3. WAY TO GO!

  4. Bridge to Heaven

  5. KISS

  6. 君とまた逢える日を

  7. Still Blowing

  8. 四ツ葉のクローバー

  9. WITH・・・

  10. あしたの空

  11. SOMETHING NEW

CD 7:

  1. S.P.D.

  2. UTAKATA

  3. ヒマワリ -Growing Sunflower-

  4. Moonlight Honey

  5. My Street Life

  6. 指環

  7. Tracks

  8. Let’s Heat Up!

  9. カルア・ミルク

  10. リトルダンサー

  11. PRIDE feat.大神:OHGA

CD 8:

  1. WORLD DANCE

  2. SURPRISE

  3. Stay Miracle

  4. Unlucky X'mas

  5. 4 Colors

  6. FAMILY

  7. Affection 【※未発表音源】

Blu-ray Audio 1:

CDs 1-4 are contained

Blu-ray Audio 2:

CDs 5-8 are contained

Blu-ray:

「Final Summer Dream Stage in 千葉マリンスタジアム」(1999年)ライブ映像 (Chiba Marine Stadium) 1999 Live Movie

Maaya Sakamoto Celebrates Her 25th Anniversary With Best Album!

Japanese veteram seiyuu and vocalist Maaya Sakamoto is celebrating her 25th anniversary in the industry with a new best album Single Collection+ Achikochi which will be released July 15! Single Collection+ Achikochi will be Maaya-san’s sixth best album overall and the fourth best album in her Single Collection series of releases. She is known for not just her music and collaborations with famous composer Yoko Kanno but also many of her notable seiyuu roles: Aura in the .hack//sign franchise, Lunamaria Hawke in Gundam SEED Destiny, Nino in Arakawa Under the Bridge, Leila Malcal in the Code Geass franchise, Mari in the Neon Genesis Evangelion movies, Hitomi Kanz in the Escaflowne movie, and Akito Souma in Fruits Basket (2019), among more. Single Collection+ Achikochi comes hot on the heels of Maaya-san’s latest studio album Kyou Dake no Ongaku which was released last November.

Single Collection+ Achikochi will include singles released from 2013 to this year as well as unreleased songs and rare tracks on CD for the first time. There will be a total of 25 tracks such as her latest digital release “CLOVER”, used for the anime Arte; the Cardcaptor Sakura Clear Card Hen smart phone game and anime themes “Flash” and “CLEAR”; the insert songs that were used in the popular anime Wolf’s Rain “Cloud 9” and “tell me what the rain knows”; and a newly recorded version of “Watashie”. Also included will be several tracks featuring Maaya-san and several cover songs she participated in.

Single Collection+ Achikochi will be released in two editions: a 2-CD standard edition and a 2-CD + Blu-ray limited edition. The 2-CD track listing will remain the same for both editions. The Blu-ray included with the limited edition will come with the music videos that were released after 2013, live footage from Open Air Museum 2017 which was performed at Itsukushima Shrine, and footage of Maaya in 2019 Flying Dog 10th Anniversary live “Inu Fes” for a total of 2 hours and 30 mins of runtime footage! With all the extras included with this release, you don’t want to miss out. The pre-order links are below along with the track listing and Maaya-san’s latest music video!

Maaya Sakamoto/Single Collection+ Achikochi

2-CD standard edition

2-CD + Blu-ray limited edition

CD

DISC 1
01. はじまりの海
02. Be mine!
03. SAVED.
04. レプリカ
05. 幸せについて私が知っている5つの方法
06. 色彩
07. Million Clouds
08. CLEAR
09. ハロー、ハロー
10. 逆光
11. 空白
12. 宇宙の記憶

DISC 2
01. cloud 9
02. フラッシュ
03. あなたを保つもの / 坂本真綾 コーネリアス
04. セクレアール
05. 荒川小景 / 冨田ラボ feat. 坂本真綾
06. Lazy Line Painter Jane / 末光篤 feat. 坂本真綾
07. まだうごく / 坂本真綾 コーネリアス
08. Tell me what the rain knows
09. 三日月
10. 卒業写真
11. これから
12. クローバー
13. 私へ

Blu-ray

Music Video Collection
01. はじまりの海
02. Be mine!
03. レプリカ
04. 幸せについて私が知っている5つの方法
05. Million Clouds
06. CLEAR
07. ハロー、ハロー
08. 逆光
09. 宇宙の記憶
10. クローバー

第34回世界遺産劇場 -嚴島神社- 平清盛公生誕九百年 前年祭 坂本真綾 Open Air Museum 2017
01. オープニング
02. おかえりなさい
03. MC1
04. ループ
05. ロマーシカ
06. MC2
07. ダニエル
08. うちゅうひこうしのうた
09. 僕たちが恋をする理由
10. 奇跡の海
11. ヘミソフィア
12. MC3
13. Million Clouds
14. まきばアリス!
15. 光あれ
16. MC4
17. プラチナ
18. シンガーソングライター
19. MC5
20. ユニバース

Bonus Track
「フライングドッグ10周年記念LIVE『犬フェス!』ライブビューイング映像」
01. オープニング
02. 逆光
03. Be mine!
04. MC
05. プラチナ